Thanks to Lethal’s link there are many ways to improve your play experience, including shafting mods with large messaging requirements.

Driving solution to disconnects

My disconnecting stopped once I did a manual update of my net and video drivers (via windows update and vendor website), so that’s a great 1st place to start.

My lag and frame rates got marginally better, but not enough, so I also followed one of the recommendations on the linked forum and installed Fubar_AddonSpamFu, just because I am curious by nature.

Carbonite, GTFO of my Dalaran, Boss fight, Battleground and Server!

Sure enough, one of the 1st offending message spammers I noticed was GearScore. You can shove that in your recycle bin too you elitist emblem lovers!

But the out-and-out “I will adversely effect your game play experience” mod was Carbonite.

Don’t get me wrong, I have used, promoted and even loved Carbonite in the past. Until they went premium, until now…

I’m sure the creators of Carbonite are good folks and they have developed an otherwise excellent mod that I would continue to recommend, under other circumstances, but something has to change.

To think I originally changed to Carbonite because it had a lower footprint than the mod I was using at the time. Our own TreeHuggerDave was pimping it’s gatherer abilities to me only the other day.

I’m using (why does my iPhone spell checker want to correct “using” with Jong?) Quest Helper these days, which you can see is a bit spammy, but only a fraction of Carbonite.

Healbot is also a bit spammy, but I dare say you would prefer my heals to my Carbonite messages, especially mid boss fight. (yes I realize I have 2 versions of LibHeal installed, I didn’t, but I do now. That Guild positions mod is going too!).

Whisper your best mates, your guild leader, perfect strangers (just not the Horde) and tell them that you are putting them on /ignore until they too uninstall Carbonite (and GearScore and any other “relatively worthless” addon).

Tell Carbonite (and the other spammy mod) creators to reduce the spam, especially if you are paying for a reduced game experience.

Woot, mentioned!
I am happy to report also, that after many raids I have not disconnected once, and overall DCs have been down majorly.
So much, that we downed Anub’arak 25 man :)http://ascendotuum.wowstead.com/

I don’t use carbonite but I have been having problems with disconnects from the game recently, most noticeably since I started going into battlegrounds. Thanks for the links, I shall be having a firtle through my addons at the weekend :)

Hate to tell you this but QuestHelper will hurt you more than Carbonite. QuestHelper has a ridiculously massive memory footprint. It’s 5 times the memory footprint that Auctioneer has, for Hodir’s sake. It may not knock you offline, but it will drop your fps to 1. Which is effectively the same thing.

I’m guessing the network issues are primarily affecting people from Australia? Cause I’ve never had a problem with network latency due to addons. Just network latency due to Comcast.

I tried Carbonite and despised it. I also get very annoyed with people whose Carbonite tells me every time they pick up a quest item. I don’t #$%@#$ care how many hellboar-buzzard-eyeball-head-feet you have! I do care about important things in my chat window being forced out by hellboar-related junk.

It’s probably fine at a low level, if you don’t get so attached to it that you can’t do without it later.

It’s really only when you start getting into mega populated cities that it’s gonna cause you problems. So… Just Dalaran, or maybe SW and Org during a holiday. Or if you’re running wow on a struggling machine. Otherwise Carbonite should be just fine until you switch your hearth to Dal.

But I beg you please, recommend they turn off the annoying chat announcement feature… for the sanity of their guildies and partymates! :P

It’s funny… I had been running Carbonite and running around Dal for a few days. I had not had a singlThen I read Gnome’s post. I have DCed 3x in Dal now. Needless to say I shut it down before I go to Dal.

So, Gnomageddon; I’d like to blame you for causing Dal to hiccup on me now ;)

Seriously though, I’m glad I read this BEFORE I started having problems. If I had started seeing all the disconnects, I may have quit in frustration.

Oh, and the Leatrix addon? It dropped my “usual” latency of 260-300ms down to 120-130ms. NICE!!!!

I’ve become rather dependant on Carbonite. Without the “go here” question marks and little X-es on my map (and without those nicer maps) I am just about lost. (I don’t have quest helper either)

I’ve been running that addon for a few days and a huge amount of traffic is generated by Carbonite…and I don’t even run it! I will be having words with my guildies and trying to persuade them to do without it I think.